Using gajim v 2.4.1 on Trisquel

The official guix repository has version 1.9.5. However, neox, one of the co-maintainers of gnuboot, has created extra guix packages definitions (only including free software), that allow installing version 2.4.1 (latest as I am writing). If you have guix installed on Trisquel and you don't have a file ~/.config/guix/channels.scm already, you can install gajim v2.4.1 that way:

• create ~/.config/guix/channels.scm (using any text editor) with the contents suggested at https://forge.a-lec.org/neox/guix-chan
• run "guix pull" (important: no sudo)
• run "guix install gajim" (important: no sudo)
• close and reopen your session (so that the icon appears in the menu)

Both "guix" commands will take time (several packages will be built directly on your machine).

Before starting the newly installed gajim, if you are already using gajim, you should do the following:

• if you are using the version of gajim from Trisquel repository, before starting gajim again:
• Backup stored information like "tar cvzf ~/gajim-trisquel-config.tar.gz ~/.config/gajim ~/.local/share/gajim"
• Uninstall gajim from Trisquel "sudo apt purge gajim".
• If anything went wrong, you can remove gajim from guix, remove ~/.config/gajim and ~/.local/share/gajim, and restore them from the archive, and reinstall gajim from Trisquel.
• if you are using gajim from flatpak:
• Backup stored information used for gajim flatpak like "tar cvzf ~/gajim-flatpak-config.tar.gz ~/.var/app/org.gajim.Gajim/config/gajim ~/.var/app/org.gajim.Gajim/data/gajim".
• Also any stored information for gajim trisquel "tar cvzf ~/gajim-trisquel-config.tar.gz ~/.config/gajim ~/.local/share/gajim"
• Uninstall gajim from flatpak "flatpak uninstall org.gajim.Gajim"
• Gajim from guix uses the same location for config/data files, so run:
• "rm -rf ~/.config/gajim"
• "mv ~/.var/app/org.gajim.Gajim/config/gajim ~/.config"
• "rm -rf ~/.local/share/gajim"
• "mv ~/.var/app/org.gajim.Gajim/config/gajim ~/.local/share"

I migrated from the flatpak version to the guix version, the only issue was that the image icon for each workspace was not kept, I had to add it again.